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Onder vuur

(Jack Ryan Universe #19)

Tom Clancy,

Jolanda te Lindert (translator),

Grant Blackwood (Goodreads Author)

3.82 · Rating details · 6,778 ratings · 400 reviews

Tijdens een bezoek aan Teheran voor de inlichtingendienst heeft Jack Ryan jr. een lunchafspraak met zijn goede vriend Seth Gregory. Na afloop weet Seth hem een sleutel mee te geven vergezeld van een mysterieuze boodschap. De volgende dag wordt Jack gesommeerd naar een appartement te komen, waar twee mannen hem vertellen dat Seth is ondergedoken met een grote som geld die b ...more

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Mar 31, 2015 T.J. Jansen rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Tom Clancy is gone. I know he had co-authors on the last several Ryan books, but this is the first that felt noticeably "different". In particular, many of the choices made by Jack Jr. were inconsistent with the charachter that had been built over the series. This felt like a different guy...more reckless and less capable. Had Jr. been consistent with the backstory, the absence of Clancy's traditionally tight intrigue would have been less jarring. To be fair, the book was entertaining, but just ...more

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Jul 20, 2015 Nick Brett rated it it was ok · review of another edition

The trouble with being a fan of the Tom Clancy “RyanVerse” is that you feel the need to read all the books as you have invested so much time in the characters. In fairness the previous Grant Blackwood dip into the world of Clancy wasn’t bad. This is his second offering and it didn’t work for me.

Ryan Junior (let us remember he is the son of the US President) is able to travel the world without Secret Service protection, without anyone recognising him, and by the way, he is an intelligence agent f ...more

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Jul 23, 2015 Ric rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Tough one to finish. The plot's a little too convoluted and contrived to keep me hooked. Granted, this series takes a lot of suspended disbelief to start with, as in the president's son running around the world doing covert stuff and shooting it out with bad guys, but still I have my limits. Jack Jr. is hardly recognizable here and Isabel, the Iranian gunslinger, is one of those characters where I wonder if the author forgot to tell me more because I don't understand why she acts that way.

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Jun 15, 2015 Mark Rubinstein rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Grant Blackwood has co-authored novels with Tom Clancy, James Rollins and Clive Cussler. Under Fire is the first solo novel Mr. Blackwood has written for the late Tom Clancy franchise, and a fine one it is. Jack Ryan, Jr. is on his own in Tehren. He meets a friend for lunch. The friend hands him the key to his apartment and a cryptic message. Soon afterwards, the friend goes missing. Jack begins tracking him down, and is soon enmeshed in high-stakes intrigue involving various international agenc ...more

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Jun 16, 2015 Michael Hicks rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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UNDER FIRE is the latest in the line of posthumous Ryanverse novels in which previous Tom Clancy collaborators and co-writers stake out on their own. I guess it should be noted that one's enjoyment of these works would be dependent on their acceptance of Clancy as a franchise and franchise-generator, rather than as an individual author of unique works. For quite a while now, Clancy's name has adorned work in which he either co-wrote (DEAD OR ALIVE, COMMAND AUTHORITY) or developed the premise (OP UNDER FIRE is the latest in the line of posthumous Ryanverse novels in which previous Tom Clancy collaborators and co-writers stake out on their own. I guess it should be noted that one's enjoyment of these works would be dependent on their acceptance of Clancy as a franchise and franchise-generator, rather than as an individual author of unique works. For quite a while now, Clancy's name has adorned work in which he either co-wrote (DEAD OR ALIVE, COMMAND AUTHORITY) or developed the premise (OP CENTER, SPLINTER CELL), or, more recently, as the progenitor of characters and concepts revolving around Jack Ryan, Jack Ryan Jr. and the secret organization known as The Campus, that other writers, namely Mark Greaney and Grant Blackwood, have inherited.

UNDER FIRE, of course, falls squarely in this latter category, so Clancy purists are likely to have a bit of a conniption fit. For whatever it's worth, I have little problem with authors continuing on in Clancy's world and using his characters for officially licensed purposes; as long as the work is good, I'll keep buying. Like I said, the man has grown into more of a franchise staple over the years than anything else, so whoever is actually writing these things is usually secondary to the presence of all the familiar faces and series staples. Now, that said, I've found Greaney to be a much more natural fit, perhaps thanks to his being a more constant companion to Clancy's big name header over the last few years.

Blackwood strikes me as a little less sure footed, and his first solo effort leaves a lot to be desired. But, it's also been a while since he's worked in this world - his last effort was 2012's co-written title DEAD OR ALIVE. Taking the reins single-handedly now, we find Jack Ryan Jr. chasing after a missing friend who may have stolen some money from the CIA operating account, and becomes enmeshed with a coup within the Dagestani government.

What we end up with is a perfectly fine, middle of the road thriller that, unfortunately, lacks much in the way of thrills. This is not a bad book, at least in my own estimation, but it's not particularly good either. It's readable and a decent enough time killer, but it lacks the page-turning drive of your usual Clancy books or the thrills and fast-paced nature of Greaney's works. It's also not as bad as some of Clancy's own solo efforts (I'm looking right at you, RED RABBIT), but it certainly never reaches the pinnacle of Clancy at his best (PATRIOT GAMES, EXECUTIVE ORDERS). If anything, this book might be the perfect example of a Goodreads two-star "It's OK" rating.

Blackwood is clearly trying to hit all the right notes - there's some technical lingo, spies, multinational chicanery, etc. The main problem is that it all feels so small-scale in comparison to what we've been getting previously that it comes across as a rather lightweight affair. The finale strives for the big military blowout between rival nations, but Blackwood doesn't seem to know how to make it all gel and turns toward a more personal touch with a swing back toward spy-vs-spy stuff. Sadly, UNDER FIRE closes out with a gasping whimper instead of a bang.

Clancy is a franchise, and that's never been more clear than in the time since his death. In a world of franchises, this latest effort is a bit more of a plain burger, hold the cheese and ketchup and skip the fries, OK, just give me a fucking salad instead but with a nice thick dressing, standing up against a handful of Baconators. It's OK, but only OK, and you know there's so many other tastier, greasier options for you out there.

The good news is, Greaney will be back soon with COMMANDER IN CHIEF, which I've got high hopes for. ...more

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Jun 19, 2015 Dan Curnutt rated it liked it · review of another edition

I have loved the Jack Ryan, Jr. and The Campus novels. They have been excellent works in the Tom Clancy fashion. I have felt that Grant Blackwood has been a great asset to the Clancy stable of writers, as I have noted in my other reviews of his work.

BUT, this novel didn't really work for me. My first problem is that it really only had Jack Jr. in the story until about 70% of the way through, then finally Dom Caruso shows up in the field. That misses the mark of what The Campus is about. It is no ...more

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Mar 18, 2016 Shannon rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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The plotting was convoluted at times but the characters were engaging enough for me to keep going with the audio. I doubt I would have done so with the novel.

Scott Brick, the narrator, did a respectable job with all of the voices and accents.

OVERALL GRADE: C plus to B minus.

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Jul 03, 2015 Tom Tischler rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

On a routine mission to Tehran Jack Ryan Jr has lunch with
his oldest friend Seth Gregory who is an engineer overseeing a
transcontinental railway project. The next day Jack is summoned
to an apartment where two men tell him that Seth has skipped out
with the funds for a vital intelligence operation. He soon joins
up with Ysabel Kashani an Iranian woman who has the only clue to
Seth's whereabouts. Jack soon finds himself in a maze of intrigue,
lies and betrayals. No one seems to be who they are inc ...more

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Jul 08, 2015 Chris rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I'll start by saying this: Clancy was one of the greatest authors of his genre, and to expect anyone to perfectly fill his shoes now that he is gone is a discredit to a great man.

Having said that, we have two notable successors to the franchise he created, Blackwood being one of them. I have to say that even though I didn't expect this to read like an actual Clancy book, I felt that the writing didn't live up to his standards. The story is relevant to current events and the characters are famil ...more

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Jun 02, 2015 Eric rated it did not like it · review of another edition

The 8th book using Clancy's name, the 3rd since his death, is not written by Mark Greaney (he wrote 5 of them so far with a 6th on the way), but instead Grant Blackwood takes his second shot. Whoo boy, is it awful. The story takes off so quickly I could barely keep up. The first 1/3 of the story is a mystery tale, with so many clues and names I lost track of who was who. The last 2/3 tries to tell a story of an attempted coup in one of the -stans near Russia, but it is all over the place. Blackw ...more

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Jul 21, 2015 Mike French rated it really liked it · review of another edition

If you like Tom Clancy, you will enjoy this one! Grant Blackwood is an excellent writer and I am looking forward to his new thriller series he is working on. Very exciting from start to finish!

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Jun 10, 2016 Nathaniel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Dumb but sorta entertaining. 2.5 stars rounded up.

Ultimately the issue with this book is that I'm not sure why we should care about the overall plot. I'm not sure we're given enough in the book to care about overall plot. I think the reasoning is all external to the book; a small Russian Republic wants to breakaway from Moscow; and in your head you know how its generally gone before. Therefore you automatically side with the small republic. And that can work but I think you also have to give th Dumb but sorta entertaining. 2.5 stars rounded up.

Ultimately the issue with this book is that I'm not sure why we should care about the overall plot. I'm not sure we're given enough in the book to care about overall plot. I think the reasoning is all external to the book; a small Russian Republic wants to breakaway from Moscow; and in your head you know how its generally gone before. Therefore you automatically side with the small republic. And that can work but I think you also have to give the reader reasons within the book to care about the plot, and I'm not convinced Blackwood accomplishes that. Seth, the good guy, turned bad guy, turned good guy isn't really enough. Rebaz, our besieged Russian leader, is not exactly charming.

Its been a while since I've read a recent Tom Clancy book but my memory of them generally they are characterized by a couple of things first whatever the plot there is something on the line for America and second there is plenty of, for lack of a better term, weapons porn; long detailed descriptions of various weapons or weapon systems and how they operate. Clancy, in later books, may have done way with the second, but I'm pretty sure the first held firm.

This book doesn't really have either. The second is forgivable, Clancy wrote numerous nonfiction books about the branches of the American military. I would assume that gave him a unparalleled depth and breadth of knowledge about US military weapons systems. Mr. Blackwood can be forgiven for not having that same extensive background.

I can't explain why the first went away.

The next issue is with the plot. Mr Blackwood writes a few good set pieces, but the plot kinda meanders. However much Blackwood tries to convey it, there is no ticking clock; there is no urgency until about the last hundred pages. Maybe Mr. Blackwood had it planned out, from page one, (or page one hundred), but the lack of urgency in the plot gave me the feeling Mr. Blackwood didn't have it planned out, and cobbled together the plot as he was writing it. It also gives the book the sense that Mr. Blackwood may be trying to fill out the page count. A snappier plot the book would have been three hundred, three hundred fifty pages; this plot that meanders and takes its time runs longer.

Theres also one goofy (practically fatal) logic flaw in the book. Seth, when he finally turns good guy again (pro wrestlers have fewer good guy bad guys turns in a career than Seth has in about two hundred pages), and lays out the premise of the rest of the book, he has been running this entire operation rogue without the oversight or approval of, essentially, the US Goverment and don't tell Washington. It's probably not twenty pages before Jack Ryan Jr. is laying out most of whats going on for his people in the US Government. Um, guys?

That flaw exposes a basic problem with the plot, and strengthens the argument Blackwood didn't have it planned out in advance. The whole "this op is rogue and Washington doesn't know, please don't tell" comes a little less than halfway through the book. At that point, the plot either needs to be Ryan Jr. pulls off a black op, making the previous 200 pages worth something. Or conversely, if Blackwood goes the way he did, it looks like all Seth needed was Ryan Jr. to call Washington and explain the situation, and he'd be in the clear. Making the previous two hundred pages and fairly large waste of time, and leaves the reader asking "Could the previous two hundred pages have been done in say, one hundred and twenty five pages, maybe? A hundred pages?"

If Blackwood was writing a tighter paced story, I'd be more inclined to forgive the flaw.

(I didn't read this in a day, like I've lied to GR. I don't note the days I start books. I put this down for weeks on end. I can't even guess how long it took me.)

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Aug 02, 2015 Andrew rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I know that Tom Clancy is not the primary writer on this, but the feel of the story is the same as that which captured my admiration when I read my first Tom Clancy novel over thirty years ago. The attention to detail and the time spent on character development as well as character interaction make it almost easy to stomach the wait between new books.

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Dec 10, 2017 Phillip III rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The worst thing for me is I have no idea is if this is Book 1 in a New Jack Ryan Jr. series, or like, Book 7 in the continuing Jack Ryan Jr. series. Just depends what site you look at for information.

Thing is, I always wanted to enjoy reading Tom Clancy novels. Problem was whenever I tried, I lost track of which character was which --all the names sounded the same. All of the names sounded Russian. There was always so much detail --for me-- that it bogged down the story,

Two things happened to (r The worst thing for me is I have no idea is if this is Book 1 in a New Jack Ryan Jr. series, or like, Book 7 in the continuing Jack Ryan Jr. series. Just depends what site you look at for information.

Thing is, I always wanted to enjoy reading Tom Clancy novels. Problem was whenever I tried, I lost track of which character was which --all the names sounded the same. All of the names sounded Russian. There was always so much detail --for me-- that it bogged down the story,

Two things happened to (re)spark my interest.First I saw that John Krasinski would be staring in a new Jack Ryan TV show exclusively on Hulu, and then I stumbled onto the Jack Ryan Jr. series. Like all these signs telling "okay, let's give this another go."

I am thrilled that I did. I loved Under Fire by Grant Blackwood. Jack Ryan's son works for the Hendly Associates, an arbitrage firm. They buy and sell securities among other things. To a select few the Hendly Associates also goes by another name. The Campus. Jack, Jr. also does this and that for The Campus. It is the This and That could get him killed.

After meeting with Seth Gregory, an old friend, for lunch, Jack Jr. is brought in for questioning. The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and the C.I.A. want some answers. Seth is into something and the men from the agencies need to find him. Seth was working on something for them. He took their money and vanished. They believe Jr. knows where Seth might have gone.

Jr. has no idea where Seth went. But he thinks he knows how to start tracking him. Thing is, he isn't going to do it for the agencies asking. He starts looking for Seth because he can't imagine how a simple engineer for Shell working on drilling for oil could be caught up with anything that has to do with the S.I.S. and the C.I.A.

Russia is in unrest. They have made many aggressive moves across nearby borders. The Dagestanis do not realize it, but they are a chess piece now in play. A coup is in the works. AGreeing governments might be behind the staging of the political take-over. For things to go as planned, a lot has got to happen in a specific order, and with specific results.

I've tried planning a shopping list before going to the store and messed up getting what needed buying . . . Just saying.

And now Jr. and his friends at The Campus, along with some others find themselves in the middle of a country's chaos. With kidnappings, and death threats, presidents, and body guards, Jack Ryan Jr has no idea to who he can trust. There is know telling who is loyal to who(m).

What Jr. does know is that time is running out. The game is in play. The coup is going to happen. There could be deadly riots and absolute anarchy

Under Fire was a fast. (Still a thousand names. Thankfully, not all Russian)! The pacing was tight, and fast. Like Tom Clancy there is plenty of detail, and specifics, but I did not find them overbearing and was able to keep my head above water while reading with minimal effort.

Phillip Tomasso
author of Absolute Zero
and Damn the Dead ...more

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Aug 25, 2015 Will rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Clancy fans with maleable standards

Shelves: political-intrigue, mystery, romance, thriller

SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW FOLLOWS:

The entire time I was writing this review the Righteous Brothers' song lyrics, 'you've lost that love and feeling' kept playing in my mind. Sorry Grant Blackwood, you can collaborate with Clancy pretty well as proven in 'Dead or Alive' but creating Clancy was a failure in my humble opinion with 'Under Fire.' It would seem that Mark Greaney, 'Full Force & Effect' was truer to the faith with the North Korean rare earth minerals story. As inaccessible as North Korea SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW FOLLOWS:

The entire time I was writing this review the Righteous Brothers' song lyrics, 'you've lost that love and feeling' kept playing in my mind. Sorry Grant Blackwood, you can collaborate with Clancy pretty well as proven in 'Dead or Alive' but creating Clancy was a failure in my humble opinion with 'Under Fire.' It would seem that Mark Greaney, 'Full Force & Effect' was truer to the faith with the North Korean rare earth minerals story. As inaccessible as North Korea is, Blackwood did his best by taking the reader on a trip through northwest Iran, then Georgia, barely missing Armenia but not Azerbaijan before winding up in Dagestan, which is still part of Russia. At best, the cross country motoring got me tuned in to the fact that the western shore of the Caspian Sea is one of Russia's prime oil fields, if nothing else. The believability of the storyline is another question mark, but that's not what got the Righteous Brothers stirring. The whole text just doesn't feel like Jack Ryan Jr and the Campus. It's sort of like they cut the boy free with the barest of lifelines. Sure, Dom Chavez shows up late in Dagestan to help Jack single handedly hold off the Russian Bear, but come on, really? Vlad Putin would never put up with such; I mean, Chechnya is right next door and the Russians have committed divisions of soldiers to quell that Islamic jihadist uprising over the past twenty years! The only lifeline Blackwood threw jack is the mysterious Iranian hottie Ysabel Kashani, and other than being Seth Gregory's former squeeze we ain't gotta clue whose side she's on. So Jack Jr. gets laid, almost as a passing fancy, but the reader's left holding the bag on this one. Recommended reading only if you can borrow the book.

SPOILER PLOT SUMMARY (ATTEMPT) FOLLOWS:

Adventure on the Caspian. Jack Ryan Jr. ventures to Tehran to test the waters so to speak following the election of the new moderate President Kamran Farahani. While there he lunches with his old high school mate Seth Gregory who leaves Jack with a harrowingly strange parting message; left you the key and steaks in the freezer. At the same time, a hit team is operating in Edinburg, Scotland, casing a university student for capture and smuggling back to Dagestan. The hit team is under the direction of Russian SVR officer Oleg Pechkin, but Jack knows little about his intentions. Meanwhile things start sliding sideways in Tehran as Jack tries but fails to locate Seth via phone but can gets texts from him, warning him of imminent danger. Soon Jack is kidnapped by men speaking English, manages to escape and is rescued by a strange but attractive Iranian woman Ysabel Kashani, who takes him in and protects Jack while he unhatches the conspiracy. Seth had claimed to be a ringer for Shell Oil's drilling operations along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, but finds himself in a seeming tug of war between the CIA and MI6. With Ysabel now as his guardian/partner, they follow Seth's trail as it leads up through northwestern Iran to Tbilisi, Georgia then across Azerbaijan to Baku. There Jack and Ysabel finally have a spirited conversation with the CIA officer Matt Spellman, who is in league with Seth trying to facilitate the coup d'état planned by Dagestani General cum politico Rebaz Medzhid. When they learn of the plan to snatch Rebaz' daughter Aminet in Edinburg Jack and Ysabel fly there, roust the hit team and find a lead back to Dagestan when they rescue Amy. Arrested in Dagestan when they travel to give the hit team's leader's husband a last video, they manage to be released after invoking Medzhid's name. Arriving in Makhachkala, they learn of the very well-planned coup Seth and Spellman have hatched for Medzhid, only to learn that rogue MI6 officer Ray Wellesley is in league with SVR officer Oleg Pechkin to unravel and defeat Medzhid's plans. If Medzhid succeeds, he plans on steering Dagestan towards freedom from Russian as did Georgia and Azerbaijan previously. Although Seth has planned for high tech warfare, with alternate Wi-Fi hotspots to transmit Medzhid's messages, the Russians are aware and bring in military grade jamming and web override equipment in heavy combat vehicles. Constantly in touch with the Campus, Dom Chavez comes into town to help, only to find the Russians plan on bringing in thousands of soldiers if necessary to quell the rebellion. Using determination and luck, Dom and Jack manage to locate a ship borne signal triangulator, disable it and sink it in the harbor. One of Rebaz' own security staff is a traitor, shoots Rebaz and Seth, killing Seth but only wounding Medzhid. Having survived the worst of the opposition, Medzhid is free to carry on his fight to defeat the incumbent Dagestan President and position them for possible freedom from Russia. Having survived the battle, Jack and Ysabel retreat for a sex filled vacation.
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Sep 17, 2018 Michael Goulette rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Not even close to the standard set by Tom Clancy or Mark Greany. Was hard to get through.

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Aug 10, 2015 Richard rated it it was ok · review of another edition

For the genre, and Tom Clancy' Jack Ryan world, this rates as an average B movie. Something to pass the time and enjoy as long as you don't question the plot (very convoluted but not in the good way of Tom Clancy's earlier books) or characters.

Speaking of the characters we have a number of new ones but Ysabel is the one that shoguns best. However she, like all the rest, doesn't get much character development.

Annoying that Dom is used as just-another-henchman. This is part of the problem with t ...more

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Jul 04, 2015 Mike Selland rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book, and yet...
Since I've read all of Clancy's books I've come to expect a level of detail that was missing here. Jack, Jr. way too casually brings people into the Campus circle. And the CIA operatives go along with everything Jack suggests without question. Sure, at the beginning they think he's just a business and finance guy, but within short order he's leading the team. Not terribly realistic.
Also, there is a disconnect from other books in the series that didn't exist when Cl ...more

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Jul 09, 2015 Rob Cohen rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This one seemed to drag. I miss the early days of Clancy, where it was more techno thriller and political intrigue and less about hand to hand combat. Don't get me wrong, there was plenty of techno crap in this one and politics, but it just doesn't feel the same as the old days. I remember the plot lines of all of the early books simply by their title, but since Clancy died, the books have just seemed to run together and I cannot tell one from the other... I guess it shows, you can never go home ...more

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Jul 06, 2015 Todd rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Solid action thriller, but definitely not in the same ballpark as Clancy. It's better to just think of it as it's own book and not connected to the earlier Clancy masterpieces. Jack Ryan Jr. is now essentially a full-fledged military black-ops type field agent, and there's very little actual spy analysis or tradecraft in this novel. ...more

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Jul 09, 2015 Bob Wasserman rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Kind of flat, definitely disappointing. I've had mixed results when new writers pick up a series by a great author - not an easy task.
I never really bought the premise and why the key characters were doing what they're doing - putting their lives on the line for........I know he TOLD me, but I didn't buy it.
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Sep 28, 2015 Alec Peche rated it liked it · review of another edition

Like other raters have said, I'm having a hard time with the premise that the President's son goes around the world saving people w/o Secret Service protection which would be such a liability to capture JAck Ryan, Jr and hold the US hostage for his ransom. Since I am so bothered by the premise, I'll desert this series. ...more

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Jul 21, 2015 Barry rated it liked it · review of another edition

Not bad, but definitely not as good as Clancy's books. Dragged a bit and there never really seemed to be a good reason for Junior and friends to do some of the things they were doing. In fact, there never really seemed to be a reason for the story at all. ...more

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Aug 11, 2015 Kelly Nielsen rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Jun 28, 2016 Brad rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Ugh! Really wondering when I'm going to finally learn. Tom Clancy is dead. These knock-offs are worse than pathetic. Disbelief unable to be suspended, even for a page. Someone please stop me before I read another! ...more

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Jun 18, 2015 Clay Davis rated it liked it · review of another edition

The last half of the book was not as interesting as the first. The manual on how to make a coup was interesting. Dagestan doesn't not seem that important for such a long book. ...more

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Jun 25, 2015 Jeff rated it liked it · review of another edition

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OK read, not a real well-developed plot and definitely not up to the Clancy standard, but also not a complete waste of time to read it. How's that for an endorsement!? :-) ...more

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Jul 15, 2015 Jeff Arbuckle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Enjoyable read. A little different feel from the Mark Greaney books but still a fast pace story line to stop you from putting the book down.

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Jul 18, 2015 David rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Contrived; disappointing; predictable. Not like a typical Clancy novel!

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Aug 16, 2015 John rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This isn't Tom Clancy at all. If I read "Jack spun on his heel" one more time I'm going to scream. ...more

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